Yesterday's Adventures: Past Simple Battleships
Students find hidden ships by building past simple sentences about weekends, birthdays and holidays. Each shot means saying a full sentence with a regular or irregular past verb.
A free Battleships Game for Young learners at CEFR B1 level. Topic: past simple.
Grammar focus: past simple
Grid rows
- I
- My best friend
- Our teacher
- We
- My grandparents
- The little dog
Grid columns
- last weekend
- yesterday afternoon
- at the park
- after school
- on my birthday
- during the holidays
Vocabulary
- visit
- cousins
- write
- story
- ride
- bike
- do
- homework
- get
- watch
- learn
- swim
- go
- zoo
- call
- find
- lost
- kitten
- play
- football
- make
- card
- break
- arm
- climb
- mountain
- read
- funny
- see
- famous
- singer
- talk
- parents
- sing
- song
- travel
- Spain
- bake
- chocolate
- cake
Printable worksheet
This Battleships Game comes with a free printable worksheet: 2 parts for students to do after the game, and an answer key for the teacher. It prints at three levels (Support, Core and Challenge); this is the Challenge sheet. Sign in free to print the whole sheet.
What's on the worksheet
- Play Battleships on paper · Draw 3 ships on your grid: one of 3 squares and two of 2 squares. Don't show your partner. To fire, say a full sentence. Your partner says hit or miss.
- Build the sentence · Use the words to write a full sentence.
Part 1: Play Battleships on paper
Draw 3 ships on your grid: one of 3 squares and two of 2 squares. Don't show your partner. To fire, say a full sentence. Your partner says hit or miss.